Our recent paper finds that early life stressors that impair song learning in male birds, also impacts response to song by female birds. These findings support other work showing that developmental stressors alters females' motivation to respond to song. Females choose mates based in part on song, so this dampened response could have consequences for their reproductive success or the quality of their offspring.​https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/doi/abs/10.1002/dneu.22600